The reports that the encryption didn't prevent them from obtaining the plaintext were erroneous. |
Transpositions rearrange the symbols in the plaintext without changing the symbols themselves. |
A political party in Mexico wants an encryption key broken, because it believes that the resulting plaintext will embarrass the ruling party. |
When all other messages are plaintext, a single encrypted message is easily spotted. |
This means that law enforcement could present decrypted plaintext in open court, but refuse to reveal to the defendant how that plaintext was obtained. |
By building a device appropriately, it was possible to rebuild the plaintext without having decrypt the transmissions. |